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Backstage Pass – Subscription Box Website

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Create a website for a monthly subscription box. 

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WordPress

Elementor Page Builder

Subscription boxes are boxes you can get monthly, packed with goodies based on a monthly theme. I incorporated my love of music into this project, creating a site that sends subscription boxes filled with CDs. Backstage Pass is the name of the site, as it sends the message that it feels like you’re going backstage to get to know an artist through their music.

My biggest inspiration was my love for music and my big collection of CDs. I used this to my advantage in this project, even photographing some of them for the project. My goal was to show that CDs are not going out of style. I wanted to explore what I could do when I crossed my CD collection with creating a website. Backstage Pass was the result. The final site was more than what I had envisioned.

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Amplified – Blog Project

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objective:

Create a blog site based on a topic of choice.

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WordPress

Elementor – Page Builder

My first blog was something I had to do for a project, but later became a site that I keep updating. It was first named Rock Music in 2019 and renamed Amplified the following year.

The purpose of the blog is to share my opinions on albums that have made a big impact on me. The main inspiration for Amplified is Loudwire, a popular rock music news blog. I wanted to have a similar outlet, but one more opinion-based. My goal for Amplified is to have a space to talk about my love of music that has impacted me, even if it doesn’t get readers. Amplified, even though it gets updated often, is much better than what I originally envisioned for the site. Amplified has given me a space where I can talk about what I love.

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Arrow Hotel

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objective:

Create a website for a boutique hotel with a self-chosen theme. 

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WordPress

Elementor Page Builder

If you’ve ever stayed in a hotel, it’s obvious that all the rooms look the same, the floors look the same, and even the artwork from floor to floor is similar. This project throws all of that out the window. For this project, the task was to create a website for a boutique hotel. Thus, Arrow Hotel was born.

I created Arrow Hotel with a challenge for myself in mind: use Pantone’s 2019 color of the year, Living Coral, and create my theme from that color. The color was bold and comforting, so I ran with the theme. 

My biggest inspiration for the site was bringing together stunning French artworks and the upscale New York City. My goal was to create a site that invoked the feeling that you were in Paris and New York City simultaneously. This website achieved more than just that one goal. Arrow Hotel quickly became the project I’ll never regret.

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SAFETYON – Design for Good Campaign

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objective:

Create a nonprofit campaign for a good cause. Design the brand, company, and advertising. 

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Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

WordPress

Elementor – Page Builder

A project about designing for good is what lead me to create SafetyOn. SafetyOn is a nonprofit company that promotes positive gun use, and proper education, and enforces the correct use of guns. The mission is to educate people about the safety, proper use, and laws about guns and ammunition.

SafetyOn is a project created with WordPress, which gave me complete creative freedom. My inspiration was my stance on gun rights, and I wanted to develop a message that focused on the positive attributes of guns. SafetyOn aims to cater to lovers, haters, and owners of guns and ammunition. I used this project with the goal of educating people in mind.

While developing the campaign, I learned so much more about proper protection, use, and very interesting facts. Creating SafetyOn has taught me so much, and I have continued to learn thanks to my research for the project. I hope to continue developing this project, such as updating the website for the brand and keeping it up to date on what’s happening in the gun world. 

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Mo Ghlas – The First Customizable Whiskey

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objective:

Create a site that customizes a product.

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WordPress

Elementor – Page Builder

Mo Ghlas is a site that customizes whiskey. Mo Ghlas allows the customer to build their own bottle of whiskey online. It began as a project in my freshman year of college, and its purpose was to help prepare me for future web-based classes. I started the project in Adobe Illustrator, creating multiple layouts for each page. After using it for various projects during those web-based classes, I brought it to life with the help of WordPress.

The original objective of the project was to create a product that can be customized. With this objective in mind, I ran with the idea of customizing a product that nobody thought about customizing. Luckily, the idea blew my professor away and I was allowed to continue with the project.

This was the project that encouraged me to think way outside the box. Who would’ve thought to create a site that customizes whiskey? The final site has become something much better than I ever imagined when I started it. Cheers!